The latter six-steps procedure provided 2 in 37% overall yield starting from the commercially available aniline 6 (the overall yield with the older proedureZ was only 5%). In addition, it is faster because it avoides tedious repeated chromatographies needed for the separation of the isomers. The procedure described in Scheme 2 is a major improvement in the synthesis of 2 in 37% overall yield from 6.